Sold outIn short · Clynelish (Highland), 8 years.
“We found this one superbly fresh and full of fabrics, smashed seashells, wet rocks, surf-drenched beach pebbles, chalk, bitter lemon and limoncello with soda water.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 26.149 is a single cask of Clynelish, in the Highland region, 8 years old, bottled at 58.1%. Every Society bottle numbered 26.x is from Clynelish.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
Near Brora, on the Sutherland coast, Clynelish works beside its own ghost. The original distillery of 1819 stands next to the modern one built in 1967; revived as Brora to make peated spirit for Johnnie Walker, it became a legend after closing in 1983. Clynelish itself is prized for a singular waxy, honeyed, coastal texture, and nearly all of it still goes into Johnnie Walker. Diageo's.